Industrial application sectors

Modern infrastructure and transport systems must become safer, more resilient, lower carbon and more efficient while meeting growing demand and adapting to climate change, digitalisation, ageing assets and evolving security risks. Metamaterials offer new ways to control mechanical, acoustic, electromagnetic and thermal behaviour, creating opportunities to improve monitoring, durability, comfort, connectivity and performance across the built environment and mobility sectors.

Through the UK Metamaterials Network, organisations can access expertise, facilities and collaborators working across structural engineering, transport systems, sensing, communications, acoustics, manufacturing, materials science and digital infrastructure.